Roxey Ann Caplin Explained

Roxey Ann Caplin (c. 1793 – 2 August 1888) was a British writer and inventor.

Biography

She was born in about 1793 in British North America. Around 1835, she married Jean Francois Isidore Caplin (c.1790-c.1872).

From 1839, Caplin was a corsetmaker working at 58 Berners Street, London.

At the Great Exhibition in 1851, she was awarded the prize medal of "Manufacturer, Designer and Inventor" for her corsetry designs. The corsets from the Great Exhibition in 1851 are in the Museum of London.[1]

In 1860, she became a member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). By 1864, she had filed 24 patents.[2]

She died on 2 August 1888 at Cambridge Lodge, St Leonard's East Sheen in Surrey. Her effects were valued at £6452, a considerable estate for a tradesman in this period.

Madame Caplin

How shall the poet, in a single lay,the glory of her age and time portray?Suffice if for the wondering world to markShe took from all beside the medal in Hyde Park;The only prize that was for corsets givento any manufacturer under heaven.Lo! the dazzling splendours of her fame advanceO'er 'All England' and the whole of FranceShe, the beloved, who now fills Brunswick's throneDeals with Madame Caplin – her alone;Why need I paint the heroine of my lays,Or tell the land where passed her virgin days;'Twas Canada!'-above all colonies renowned—that heard my heroine's praises first resound,You'll an incarnation of the graces meetat No. 58 in Berners Street.Science and pure benevolence combined,A deity in human form enshrined;Gracious demeanour, and courtly mien,Learning and worth are thine, great Native queen.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Silk and whalebone corset . 3 March 2008 . 13 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080513182934/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/bodies/corset.htm . dead .
  2. [s:Page:Caplin - Health and Beauty1864 - 175.png|MADAME CAPLIN'S INVENTIONS]
  3. James Torrington Spencer Lidstone;The Londoniad: Grand National Poem on the Arts; Universal Partonage; 1856
  4. [s:Page:Caplin - Health and Beauty1864 - 202.png|Opinions of the press.]